New Edinburgh Grant

New Edinburgh Grant
Extracted from
Digby County Registry of Deeds
Book 1A Pages 83-85

John Parr Esq. Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His
Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia and its Defenders, Vice Admiral of the same
&etc,&etc, &etc
To Stephen Jones & John Taylor Esq., Greetings
Whereas it is necessary that proper persons should be appointed to locate
settlers on both sides of the River Sissiboo.
I have therefore thought proper to appoint you the said Stephen Jones and John
Taylor to locate settlers on both sides of the River of Sissiboo aforesaid,
which settlers shall hereafter receive Licences of Occupation,

Given under my Hand and Seal at Halifax this 5th day of March 1791 in the
thirty first year of His Majesty's Reign
J Parr
By Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor
Richard Bulkeley
Recorded 22 Nov 1798

Page 84
By virtue of an Order from the late Lieutenant Governor Parr to locate lands
upon the Sissiboo River we have had the same surveyed to the following persons.
Viz:

Lot No 1

John ARCHIBALD

57 acres

Lot No 2

Henry BARR

62 acres

Lot No 3

Jacob CORNWELL, Jr

63 acres

Lot No 4

Ebenezer PORTER, Jr

63 acres

Lot No 5

Jacob CORNWELL, Sr

64 acres

Lot No 6

Joseph MERAW

68 acres

Lot No 7

Charles DOUSETT, Jr

54 acres

Lot No 8

Timothy MERAW

61 acres

Lot No 12

Edward COX

139 acres

Lot No 13

Ebenezer PORTER

104 acres

Lot No 14

William JOHNSON

247 acres

Lot No 15

John TAYLOR

34 acres

Lot No 16

Joseph GODAT

96 acres

Lot No 17

John GODAT

93 acres

Lot No 18

Samuel DOTY

90 acres

Lot No 19

Joseph DOUSETT

116 acres

Lot No 20

Marin Le BLANC

92 acres

Lot No 21

Samuel DOUSETT

90 acres

Lot No 22

Simon STEVEN

86 acres

Lot No 23

John ELSEE

95 acres

Lot No 24

John TAYLOR

430 acres

Lot No 10

Michael WEAVER

78 acres

Lot No 11

Vacant

Lot No 9

Reserved for Brickyard

16 acres

(signed)
John Taylor S Jones

Page 85 Halifax, 16 October 1795 Whereas it has been represented to me that the
above mentioned persons have been in possession and made considerable
improvements and many houses and barns erected and persons resident thereon in
conformity to permission granted to them by the late Lieutenant Governor Parr
under his Hand and Seal according to a Survey and plan thereof returned unto the
Surveyor Generals Office for this Province, I do hereby consider that the above
persons having settled on the premises and expended their time and means in
cultivation thereof under the faith of the Government are equitably and
reasonably entitled to the full benefits thereof. Therefore they and each of
them have my full consent to remain upon and occupy the premises and my full
assurance that as soon as His Majesty's Instructions shall enable and authorize
me to grant Land, I will as far as in me lies, expedite and give a complete and
regular Grant of Patent to them for the same according to law. Halifax 17th
October 1795
~Wentworth~
Recorded this 22 Nov 1798

Compilers note:
The surname Meraw should probably be Amirault
Dousett is now commonly spelled Doucet(te)
Godat is now commonly spelled Gaudet(te)

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